Sat, Apr 21, 2012 1:27 PM in SCCPSS- Concept Development
Natalie, I never thought about the fact that our science text does the same explore first/then read cycle that Olson describes in the article. I like your point about Bloom's Taxonomy: move from the concrete to the abstract.
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Sat, Apr 21, 2012 1:08 PM in SCCPSS- Concept Development
Craig, I also appreciated the examples of sentence starters given in the article, especially since they helped the students summarize prior learning. I would like to come up with a list of sentence starters for each unit myself for use with science journals.
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Tue, Apr 17, 2012 6:46 PM in SCCPSS- Concept Development
This article makes me feel like a totally incompetent teacher. This would be the ideal way to teach every science concept (Would it work for other subjects?). It makes perfect sense to have the children explore concepts first, and then guide them through the concept development process. I'm lucky if I get in one juicy exploration per concept. Multiple explorations would solve the differentiation p...
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